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History of Cass County, Iowa
Springfield, ILL.:
Continental Historical Company, 1884

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        WILLIAM MORGAN lives on section 24, where he settled. in 1875.  He
     at first purchased eighty acres, but now has two hundred and eighty
     acres, forty of which is in Grant township. He was born in the city of
     Glasgow, Scotland, in 1834. He was brought up in his native country,
     and in his youth, served an apprenticeship to the trade of linen
     thread making.  He came to America in July, 1867, landed at New York
     and went to Illinois. In 1874 he came to Cass county and bought eighty
     acres of land, on which he settled the following year.  He had, when
     he came here, but little of this world's goods, but is now in pros-
     perous circumstances.  He was married in Scotland, to MARGARET GOW.
     They have eleven children, of whom the eldest two were born in
     Scotland. They have eight sons and two daughters. They lost one son
     previous to coming to this country.

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